Clinical Focus: This grouping value set contains diagnoses used to identify patients with a history of atrial fibrillation/flutter or a current finding of atrial fibrillation/flutter.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients with a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation or flutter. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element would map to the Diagnosis category or the Diagnosis attribute for the Encounter category.
Inclusion Criteria: Include codes that identify patients with a history of atrial fibrillation/flutter or a current finding of atrial fibrillation/flutter. This is a grouping of ICD10CM, ICD9CM and SNOMEDCT codes.
Exclusion Criteria: None.
ResultValue constrained to codes in the Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.202)
Diagnosis: Condition/Diagnosis/Problem represents a practitioner’s identification of a patient’s disease, illness, injury, or condition. This category contains a single datatype to represent all of these concepts: Diagnosis. A practitioner determines the diagnosis by means of examination, diagnostic test results, patient history, and/or family history. Diagnoses are usually considered unfavorable, but may also represent neutral or favorable conditions that affect a patient’s plan of care (e.g., pregnancy). The QDM does not prescribe the source of diagnosis data in the EHR. Diagnoses may be found in a patient’s problem list, encounter diagnosis list, claims data, or other sources within the EHR. The preferred terminology for diagnoses is SNOMED-CT, but diagnoses may also be encoded using ICD-9/10. The Diagnosis datatype should not be used for differential diagnoses or rule-out diagnoses (neither of which are currently supported by the QDM).